The other fifties
Subtitle: interrogating midcentury American icons
By: edited by Joel Foreman.
Contributors: Foreman, Joel.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Popular culture -- United States; Nineteen fifties; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The frustrated persuader : Fairfax M. Cone and the Edsel advertising campaign, 1957-59 / James L. Baughman; title: Postwar white girls' dark other / Wini Breines; title: Mau Mau's American career, 1952-57 / Joel Foreman; title: The opening of America : meaningful difference in 1950s television / Horace Newcomb; title: Watching Elvis : the male rock star as object of the gaze / David R. Shumway; title: Memory and repression in early ethnic television : the example of Gertrude Berg and the Goldbergs / Donald Weber; title: What Lola got : cultural carelessness on Broadway / David Van Leer; title: The prime of Miss Kim Novak : struggling over the feminine in the star image / Jackie Byars; title: Split screens : framing and passing in pillow talk / Cynthia J. Fuchs; title: Democracy, capitalism, and American literature : the cold war construction of J.D. Salinger's paperback hero / Lee Medovoi; title: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something (red, white, and) blue : Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged and objectivist ideology / Stacey Olster; title: The road to rapprochement : Krushchev's 1959 visit to America / Stephen J. Whitfield.